East Riding of Yorkshire graphic designers, Colin Wilson and Graham Jenkinson, spent five long years restoring a two hundred year old ‘Priest’s House’ in the mediaeval village of Sos del Rey Católico in northern Aragón.

Everything went to plan (even conversing with constructers and architects) until the boys needed furniture and equipment transferring from Yorkshire to the casa. Britannia came to the rescue.

Sos del Rey is the birthplace of Ferdinand, who later married Isabel and united all of Spain, their daughter, Kathryn famously married our own King Henry VIII and escaped the axe. Consequently, Sos is a place of pilgrimage and the stone architecture pretty much resembles the village at the time of his birth.

Being romantic about a place is all very well until it comes to transporting heavy Mexican furniture through the narrow streets of a pueblo – cars can only get to eight hundred metres of the casa which is at the top of the hill!

After frantic conversations with local friends and a builder, it was agreed that the team would utilise a dumper truck, perfectly lined with padding, to transport the chattels to their final resting place.

The Britannia team coped extremely well with the problem from start to finish, using a smaller van to help negotiate the narrow streets. Colin and Graham said that the most memorable sight was the liveried truck turning into the mountain approach to the village.